Industry reviews

Macworld

"With version 11.5, HD has arrived for Director and the Shockwave player in the form of support for H.264-video. With this on board you can now provide full-screen, HD video in multimedia applications and games authored in Director – MP4, F4V and FLV file formats are now natively supported."

"Tired of rendering your 3D masterpieces to video? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to hand your 3D scenes to your clients, with all the models, maps and lights included and have them view it interactively? Or even to create a 3D game with your datasets? If so, Director 11 promises to do all this for you – and more."

Director 11 By Lance Evans

August 15, 2008

GameDev

"Overall, Director 11 is stronger than ever with a list of key new power features such as DirectX 9 support and physics. Coupled with a strong feature set of an experienced tool that has thousands of games and interactive projects to its credit, the new features launches Director into new ground and makes it competitive with other much costlier solutions."

Product Review Adobe Director 11 By Kelly Murdock

30 July 2008

MacDesign

4.5 out of 5: "Macromedia Director is the King Kong of interactive multimedia authoring programmes! You'd have to search a lot of jungles to find any other authoring programme that has as many features as Macromedia Director."

Merrily Miller and David Rosenblatt

July/August 2004 issue

AV Video Multimedia Producer

"Director's new DVD-video support is something that has real potential. In my opinion, this feature can lead to new ways of deploying kiosks and DVDs."

Dylan Wood

August 4, 2004

PC Magazine

4 out of 5 stars: "Aimed at professional multimedia, web, game and even enterprise developers, Macromedia Director MX 2004 adds polish and new reach to an already powerful multimedia authoring tool. This strong release features support for new media file types, better Flash integration and several key user interface improvements."

"The introduction of these changes and more, to Director MX 2004 gives developers a complete suite of rich media production tools."

Tom Green

Macworld

"[But] Director MX does something else: It gives designers tools for creating multimedia content that can be deployed across a wide range of media: CDs, DVDs, kiosks, downloadable applications and the web. Think of it as an all-in-one multimedia tool. If you're building content that may include text, hypertext, audio, high-resolution still images, digital video, animation, 3D modelling and Flash content, this is the application to use."

Neil Jones

June 2003

MacAddict

4 out of 5 stars: "Great. Since its inception in 1987, Macromedia Director has been king of the multimedia-creation hill. From advanced presentations and video collages to animation and interactive 3D games, if you can dream it, you can build it using Director."

Presentations Magazine has given Director MX 2004 the 2004 Standing Ovation Award for the best professional multimedia authoring solution in its December 2004 issue. The Standing Ovation awards honour "the absolute best products of the year" and are selected by the magazine's editors, columnists and a network of experts.

eMedia Editor's Choice

"They've made Director, the software choice of multimedia developers for years, more relevant than ever by incorporating more modern development choices....This year they take it several steps further by adding new features that should make multimedia developers stand up and take notice."

PC Plus Performance Award

As Director MX 2004 branches into the DVD arena, we can be sure that we'll be in for some interesting developments as dedicated multimedia authors find another avenue to explore."